community/life
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Women and girls pay heavy price of water crisis in Yemen
Women and girls continue to pay a heavy price in Yemen due to ongoing conflicts and water crisis. The task of fetching water falls largely on women and girls in rural areas of Yemen.
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Displaced people living in Idlib share their tents with quake survivors
The displaced people living in Idlib share their tents with people, who lost their homes in the earthquake that struck Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria on February 6.
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Neighborhood commissions established by earthquake survivors in Semsûr
The earthquake survivors in Semsûr have established neighborhood commissions to support and be in solidarity with each other. The aim of the commissions is to build a communal life.
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‘Life is worth living’: Tunisian woman Maha Jabnoun overcomes brain tumor
“Nothing can stop women who want to change their reality and to rise up against the patriarchal mentality.”
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Tent schools in Shahba for children affected by earthquake
The earthquakes that struck Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria, have seriously damaged many schools in Shahba. The Afrin-Shahba Education Committee has set up 57 tent schools for elementary, secondary and high school students.
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‘Women are more successful than men in North and East Syria’
North and East Syrian Dêrik People’s Municipality Co-mayor Bêrivan Hisên says the number of women working for the municipality has increased since the revolution in Rojava, adding, “Women municipal workers are more successful than men.
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Zenûbiya Women's Community focuses on education
The main aim of the Zenûbiya Women's Community is to provide education for the whole society, particularly for women. It holds education courses based on women's liberation and the democratic nation project.
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Makhmur resists attacks with its democratic education system in mother tongue
Inhabitants of Makhmur Camp, who had to flee to Southern Kurdistan in the early 90s, are determined to preserve their mother tongue and democratic education system despite the ongoing attacks of the KDP and the Turkish state.
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More people suffer from diseases in Shahba due to siege
Aliya Mihemed, Co-chair of Afrin-Shehba Health Organization, announced that more people suffer from diseases due to the siege imposed by the Syrian government on Shahba.
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From witch hunting to 'my grandmother’s story'...
Although information transferred among midwives and women healers were targeted by witch hunters, they still exist. The story of my grandmother is actually hidden in the stories of many wise women. She treated women and dealt with pregnancy and childbirth
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Ancient village in Kobanê: Boraz
Many villages in Kobanê are named after women so they are known by the names of women. One of these villages is Boraz. The village has been underwater for years.
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Women of Deir ez-Zor make straw brooms to earn their living
Since the liberation of Deir ez-Zor from ISIS by the YPJ/YPG, women have made their labor more visible.
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Xezal makes her living from animal husbandry for 50 years
Xezal Mihemed Elî, who lives in the Qamishlo city of NE Syria, has been making her living from animal husbandry for 50 years. “I love my animals,” she said.
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Common life in Hasûd village: Commune Village Project
A project named “Commune Village Project” has been put into practice in the Hasûd village of Tirbespiyê, a city in the Qamishlo Canton for the villagers to earn a living from what they produce.
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‘Our resistance guarantees our return to Afrin’
“Our resistance guarantees our return to Afrin,” said the women, who have been living in Shahba since they had to leave Afrin after their city was occupied by the Turkish state and its mercenaries.
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Displaced women living in Idlib fight poverty
Displaced women living in Idlib struggle to survive despite the harsh social and economic conditions.
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Conditions in IDPs camps affect women’s mental and physical health
There is no privacy for women living in Idlib’s IDPs camps due to transparent tents. They face many difficulties everywhere, particularly in public toilets.
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Two women who visit Amed: Hanging flags are the breaking point of the state
Two women named Nesrin and Jiyan, who went to Turkey from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, told us what they saw at the border gate and in Amed.
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Women of Afrin resist siege and attacks
Displaced women of Afrin living in Shahba resist the ongoing Turkish attacks and the siege and embargo imposed by the Damascus government.
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She writes “Wounds of a Kurdish Woman” after 70
Fawziya Qiço, a mother in Rojava, learned how to read and write after the age of 70 and realized her dream by writing a Kurdish book entitled “Wounds of a Kurdish Woman.”